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A week ago I suggested installing AIDE to track changes on your server in case it had been hacked. I think AIDE Is so useful that it deserves a post of it’s own. Here’s a short guide to get it working properly. The AIDE .deb package includes configuration files for over 80 different software packages [...]
Remember a few weeks ago there was all that noise about WordPress blogs getting hacked? Remember how everyone was urged to upgrade their blogs. You did upgrade didn’t you? No? It was inevitable that you’d be hacked. If you haven’t been hacked yet, it’s only a matter of time. Unfortunately for some who did upgrade, [...]
Ah yes, them were the days when we had to type blog posts on quaint old keyboards. Can you imagine it? You actually had to write everything letter by letter. Today’s thought entry systems are so much more convenient don’t you think? That there Matt fella is still the youngster he always was. He may [...]
This was a nice surprise. While enjoying a lovely meal in the Castle Hotel in Blarney a courier rang me with a package. I wasn’t expecting anything but luckily he was close by and I met him in front of the local Garda station. Brimming with excitement I ripped open the package sending stickers and [...]
The long delayed version 1.5.1 of WordPress MU has just been released. If you don’t want to read the rest of this post head to the download page and grab the zip file or tarball but make sure you come back here to read the upgrade docs. This release of the popular multi-blog version of [...]
The first release candidate of the new WordPress MU 1.5 has just been released. The obvious major change is the new admin interface and password salting introduced in WordPress 2.5, but apart from them many bugs have been fixed. There is also experimental support for CSS styles, something that has been missing from MU for [...]
A few people stumbled across a strange bug in WP Super Cache. If your index.php was cached by the plugin then feeds or other pages that hadn’t been cached would show the front page! A simple way to fix this is by adding “index.php” to the list of rejected URIs, but then it won’t be [...]
Download the Theme Tester plugin for WordPress, install and activate it. Download themes from http://themes.wordpress.net/ (or maybe not, see Adam’s comment below!) and try them out without annoying your visitors by changing themes on them. My new Theme Tester plugin allows you to change themes and view the results without the visitors to your blog [...]
When is the best time to upgrade your blog software? After the latest release has been out for a few weeks? When a release is so new it’s burning a hole in the ftp servers? When there have been a couple of releases because idonthavethetimetoupdateeverysingletime? Now? The best time is right now. Spammers are taking [...]
Slow down trackback spam with Simple Trackback Validation
Donncha O Caoimh | April 3, 2008 | 17 comments
I used the Simple Trackback Validation plugin for a while until I noticed these errors showing up in php_errors. PHP Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: snoopy in /home/www/wp-content/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/simple-trackback-validation.php on line 158 This morning I decided to fix it as the spammers have been going crazy. I spotted dozens of POST requests to trackbacks as [...]
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